ONE-TREE POINT

Otago Witness, Issue 2528, 27 August 1902, Page 31

ONE-TREE POINT

Au?\T*t 25. — Some time ago attention was called herein to the state of the br-dges eranning tho Wa'hopai on tha Lon?bn^h-B:niu if ad, and ihe matter came up for consideration it the last meeting of the County Council, with tho rcult that the Lands Dponrtroent is to be applied to for a vcte of £500 towards thp erection of new bridals The opin'on is fr»ely fcxnresse'l that pubic T\orl:» m tin? wt'o.i of tae Mataura electorate ha^'e been nc-glect'-d dur:ng the pn"»t f»v. vcaxs, and as arp=ult several important maH^.-s will b^ forcing themselves on thp po\-ers lhat bvf be ''ore long. EJucatio'ial, etf — Kxnrr.ir.atio is of pfhool-i were held local'y recpntly, but, result are r.ol yet Dtibhc. Owing- to rr liin<^s1 iin<^s in the U-ichm% staff at Kenmngton, p<U. iton^l afii-rs there ar.i being watched w.th cone.de'Hble interest A concert, or some such aft'*ir. is *o h« held there shorty in a;-d of tli • f ur.d= — whatever that may meiui. —A proposal is on foot m the locality to buy th* 1 church building .md turn it into a Inll. Negotiations for its aoqui-Kion were perding a few yeurs a^o, but were u't>matp'y abandoned. However, the wan* of a omtab'e place of Eimw^mcnt is loyally f"'f : in fact, is suoken of by -orce ohuost as a mcra.t to social lifp.

Hymeneal. — Wcr'h'ppirg at the a t«.T of th ■• goddess occurs sel'lom .;i our L oaimur,i'v. bxr, ■t was lately «ho\vn not to bo an ,i!>,u d< ne;l function. My old friend, l)o ad Mli t»r» 110 longer claams to belong to A',r •■o, ,e'y v' bachelors, fcr he dc-arted it hiat .• a'ti«a long and honcirvble hS«o^iatP'-hip But, never uund, he ip a popular clu-p. arid x ' who know lum will v. i"Ji hnii full < o"tiiriat.<>n cf health, happiioss, and p*o _>ci i/ 11 Li= wed-ded state o' In*"

Oteramika. — Affairs r"-r?.~img th.^ l..r>i' 'y are not heord so m-ich rf mm since Mr T. Jefcoata left, but the ptople arc dlill p'c.clJi'ic; along in the same ol<l \%.iy, auJ c -rj'lu. l^ -i peace and quietude. Disappointed. — Tlip Prohib.t.ou parh* aLeut Woodlaxids felt much satisfaction because the alt«ed boundaries left the local hotel in the Mataura district — a, district that is expected ie b" a "dead bird" for the- cold-water faction bj-aud-bjOt but Dsmifl O'Connoll't cQach-and-

four was driven through the finduigs of tiie Commis-sioners, with the result that the not-^1 has been put into Awarua, wheie Prohibition is only a dream of the future.